Inspecção Geral das Actividades Culturais

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IGAC, Inspecção Geral das Actividades Culturais (english: General Inspection of Cultural Activities), is an organization, part of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.

It is the organization responsible for the rating of videogames, movies and related media released in Portugal.

Movies are rated using the following classifications:

M/4 For children of age 4 and above. Content with this rating should be of short duration and easy to understand and it should not provoke fear and/or collide with the sense of fantasy of this age.
M/6 For children of age 6 and above.
M/12 For children of age 12 and above. This rating is for content that due to its length and complexity, can provoke in younger viewers fatigue and psychiatric trauma. Younger viewers must be accompanied by an adult.
M/16 For children of age 16 and above. This rating is for content that explores, in excessive terms, aspects of sexuality, physical and psychic violence. Younger viewers must be accompanied by an adult.
M/18 For persons of age 18 and above. This rating is for content of explicit sexual nature and/or that explores pathological forms of physical and psychic violence. Younger viewers must be accompanied by an adult, although if they are too young, the person responsible for admission into movie theaters can deny entrance.